{"product_id":"the-stand-by-stephen-king","title":"The Stand by Stephen King","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'THE STAND is a masterpiece' (\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by virus and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e First came the virus. And then came the dreams . . .\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A man escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out over 99 percent of the world's population within a few weeks.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge - Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the 'dark man', the apostate of death, the warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Now the survivors must choose between them - and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A masterpiece' GUARDIAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'His work plumbs, with unnerving accuracy, the hopes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eand fears of an entire nation' OBSERVER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781444720730\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43016145502271,"sku":null,"price":24.29,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/8626\/8223\/files\/10202723482702.jpg?v=1773745295","url":"https:\/\/bookconnection.com.au\/products\/the-stand-by-stephen-king","provider":"The Book Connection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}